Egg beater and the like



Apfil 30, 1929] w, QG U R' 1,711,409

. EGG BEATER AND THE LIKE Filed March 16, 1928 Patented Apr. 30, 1929.

' UNITED. STATES 1,111,409 PATENT. OFFICE.

WILLIAM .ronneonnnny, or BARRASFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND, ENGLAND.

EGG BEATER AND THE LIKE.

Application filed March 16, 1928, Serial l To. 262,278, and in Great Britain October 11, 1927.

This invention relatesto egg heaters and the like and has for its ob ect to provide such devlces of an extremely simple character,

cheap to manufacture and efficient in use.

In general, egg beaters constructed according to the invention comprise a frame or what may be termed a needle. having any desired number of arms radiating from a central portion. The central portion is adapted to be attached to any suitable device by which the frame may be rotated about the'centre and in its own'plane. The arms are formed or provlded with a number of apertures in desired positions and between the arms a thread or threads of suitable material, such as cotton, silk, linen thread, fine wire of suit able metal, or otherwise are adapted to be threaded through and by means of the apertures, and suitably retained in position.

In this manner when the frame with the at equi-angular distances apart. I These blades towards the ends andin an 1nterme diate position are'formed with suitable apertures and between the apertures a strand of suitable material is threaded and retained in position in any desired manner. The central portion of the frame or needle is adapt ed to be attached to a shank, which in turncan be disposed in the chuck of a device resembling a small Archimedean drill or to the end of what may be termed a rolling stick.

By this means the device can be rotated and caused to effect the mixing. 7

In order that the invention may be better understod, it will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings which shew a preferred embodiment V and in which v I Fig. 1 is a plan view of the frame or needle. Fig. 2 is a similar View to Fig. 1 but with the strand of suitable material threaded through the various apertures and retained in position by suitable means. a I p Fig. 8 shews to a smaller scale a somewhat diagrammatic s de elevation of a frame or needle as shewn in Figs. 1 and 2 attached to one end of a rolling stick. 7

' F ig.4 is a similar view toFig. 8 but shewing the frame or needle with ashank'attached thereto adapted to be used in conjunctionfwith an Archimedean drill or the like.

As will be seen from Figs. 1 and 2, the frame or needle comprises three arms a, Z) and 0 radiating from a central portion (Z.

This frame is formed from sheet steel or other suitable metal preferably stamped out,

and the arms a, Z and c are of equal length and spaced at equi-angular distances apart. 6, 7 and g are'holes or apertures in the arms a, b and 0 towards the ends thereof, whilst.

it, and I? are similar holes in intermediate positlons along the lengths of the arms a, b and c. m 1s a perforation in the central portion (Z. n is a thread of cotton, silk, linen,

fine wire or otherwise. One end of this thread is passed through the hole 0 in the arm a and knotted thereto. By means of an ordmary sewing needle or the like the thread is now passed through the hole f to the hole g and thence back to e. To tauten the thread and to slightly bend the blades a, Z) and 0 into shallow arcs, the thread is now slightly pulled and attached to the arm a by means of the aperture e by a slipknot or otherwise. The thread is now passed through the hole It, through the hole j, throughthe hole in back to It. From h it passes to f, from f to in, from to e, from c to j, from y' to g, from g to h, where it is knotted ofi.

In using the device the frame or needle is attached in some cases to one end of a rolling stick such as p, Fig. 3, by means of a suitable screw'or the like .9 which passes through the aperture m. In other cases, for example as shewn in Fig. 4, a shank such as t is riveted to the frame or needle by means of the aperture m. In this case the said shank can be used instead of a drill in anordinary Archimedean drill, for example of the type comprising a stem having a thread'of sudden pitch, which stem carries a chuck and has 'rotatably mounted at one end thereof a ban -dl e, and mounted to'slide thereon a nut device. By holding the handle in one hand and reciprocating the nut device up and down on the stem, the .stem is caused to rotate first in one direction and then in the other, and

this rotation isimparted to theframe or llU needle carrying the threads, which should be disposed beneath the surface of'the liquid or the like to be beaten or mixed.

In the case such as illustrated in Fig. 3, the rotation is effected by rolling the stick 2) between the palms of the two hands of the user.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of America 1s:-

1. A11 egg beater comprising a frame of stiff sheet material having a central portion and a number of arms radiating therefrom so that the central portion and arms come substantially in the same plane, means attached to the central portion by which a rotation may he imparted to the frame around an axis at right angles to the plane of the frame, and a thread stretched in straight portions between the radial arms in various positions.

2. An egg beater as claimed in claim 1, in which the radial arms are provided With perforations through Which the thread passes.

3. An egg beater as claimed in claim 1, in which the frame is formed from a stamping of sheet metal.

In Witness whereof I aliix my signature.

WILLIAM JOHN GOUNDRY. 

